Volume 104, Issue 16

23 April 2010

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Confined to thin films at different heights above a reflective surface, molecules are predicted to show enhanced chiral asymmetry when illuminated with circularly polarized light.

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Optical Chirality and Its Interaction with Matter
Yiqiao Tang and Adam E. Cohen
Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 163901 (2010)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of Vortex Dipoles in an Oblate Bose-Einstein Condensate

T. W. Neely, E. C. Samson, A. S. Bradley, M. J. Davis, and B. P. Anderson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 160401 (2010) - Published 19 April, 2010

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Thermodynamics of Quantum Jump Trajectories

Juan P. Garrahan and Igor Lesanovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 160601 (2010) - Published 19 April, 2010

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Gravity-Induced Vacuum Dominance

William C. C. Lima and Daniel A. T. Vanzella

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 161102 (2010) - Published 20 April, 2010

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observability of Quantum Criticality and a Continuous Supersolid in Atomic Gases

S. Diehl, M. Baranov, A. J. Daley, and P. Zoller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 165301 (2010) - Published 20 April, 2010

LETTERS

General Physics: Statistical and Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information, etc.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of Vortex Dipoles in an Oblate Bose-Einstein Condensate

T. W. Neely, E. C. Samson, A. S. Bradley, M. J. Davis, and B. P. Anderson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 160401 (2010) - Published 19 April, 2010

Nontouching Nanoparticle Diclusters Bound by Repulsive and Attractive Casimir Forces

Alejandro W. Rodriguez, Alexander P. McCauley, David Woolf, Federico Capasso, J. D. Joannopoulos, and Steven G. Johnson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 160402 (2010) - Published 19 April, 2010

Slow Mass Transport and Statistical Evolution of an Atomic Gas across the Superfluid–Mott-Insulator Transition

Chen-Lung Hung, Xibo Zhang, Nathan Gemelke, and Cheng Chin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 160403 (2010) - Published 20 April, 2010

Soliton Creation During a Bose-Einstein Condensation

Bogdan Damski and Wojciech H. Zurek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 160404 (2010) - Published 22 April, 2010

Testing Contextuality on Quantum Ensembles with One Clean Qubit

Osama Moussa, Colm A. Ryan, David G. Cory, and Raymond Laflamme

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 160501 (2010) - Published 23 April, 2010

Topological Quantum Hashing with the Icosahedral Group

Michele Burrello, Haitan Xu, Giuseppe Mussardo, and Xin Wan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 160502 (2010) - Published 23 April, 2010

CNOT and Bell-state analysis in the weak-coupling cavity QED regime

Cristian Bonato, Florian Haupt, Sumant S. R. Oemrawsingh, Jan Gudat, Dapeng Ding, Martin P. van Exter, and Dirk Bouwmeester

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 160503 (2010) - Published 23 April, 2010

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Thermodynamics of Quantum Jump Trajectories

Juan P. Garrahan and Igor Lesanovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 160601 (2010) - Published 19 April, 2010

Generalized Elastic Model Yields a Fractional Langevin Equation Description

Alessandro Taloni, Aleksei Chechkin, and Joseph Klafter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 160602 (2010) - Published 22 April, 2010

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Indications of Proton-Dominated Cosmic-Ray Composition above 1.6 EeV

R. U. Abbasi et al. (The High Resolution Fly’s Eye Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 161101 (2010) - Published 20 April, 2010

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Gravity-Induced Vacuum Dominance

William C. C. Lima and Daniel A. T. Vanzella

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 161102 (2010) - Published 20 April, 2010

Elementary Particles and Fields

Instabilities of Non-Abelian Vortices in Dense QCD

Minoru Eto, Muneto Nitta, and Naoki Yamamoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 161601 (2010) - Published 21 April, 2010

Tetraquark Interpretation of the BELLE Data on the Anomalous $Υ (1 S) π^{+} π^{-}$ and $Υ (2 S) π^{+} π^{-}$ Production near the $Υ (5 S)$ Resonance

Ahmed Ali, Christian Hambrock, and M. Jamil Aslam

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 162001 (2010) - Published 19 April, 2010

Dominant QCD Backgrounds in Higgs Boson Analyses at the LHC: A Study of $p p \to t \bar{t} + 2$ Jets at Next-to-Leading Order

G. Bevilacqua, M. Czakon, C. G. Papadopoulos, and M. Worek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 162002 (2010) - Published 22 April, 2010

Nuclear Physics

Two-Particle Separation Energy Trends in the Superdeformed Well

A. N. Wilson et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 162501 (2010) - Published 20 April, 2010

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Density Functional Theory Approach to Noncovalent Interactions via Monomer Polarization and Pauli Blockade

Łukasz Rajchel, Piotr S. Żuchowski, Małgorzata M. Szczȩśniak, and Grzegorz Chałasiński

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 163001 (2010) - Published 21 April, 2010

Stabilization of Helium in Intense xuv Laser Fields

T. Birkeland, R. Nepstad, and M. Førre

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 163002 (2010) - Published 23 April, 2010

Triply Differential Single Ionization of Argon: Charge Effects for Positron and Electron Impact

O. G. de Lucio, S. Otranto, R. E. Olson, and R. D. DuBois

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 163201 (2010) - Published 23 April, 2010

Direct Observation of Coherent Population Trapping in a Superconducting Artificial Atom

William R. Kelly, Zachary Dutton, John Schlafer, Bhaskar Mookerji, Thomas A. Ohki, Jeffrey S. Kline, and David P. Pappas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 163601 (2010) - Published 20 April, 2010

Quantum Ghost Image Identification with Correlated Photon Pairs

Mehul Malik, Heedeuk Shin, Malcolm O’Sullivan, Petros Zerom, and Robert W. Boyd

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 163602 (2010) - Published 23 April, 2010

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Optical Chirality and Its Interaction with Matter

Yiqiao Tang and Adam E. Cohen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 163901 (2010) - Published 19 April, 2010

Chaos-Assisted Directional Light Emission from Microcavity Lasers

Susumu Shinohara, Takahisa Harayama, Takehiro Fukushima, Martina Hentschel, Takahiko Sasaki, and Evgenii E. Narimanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 163902 (2010) - Published 21 April, 2010

Realization of a Monolithic High-Reflectivity Cavity Mirror from a Single Silicon Crystal

Frank Brückner, Daniel Friedrich, Tina Clausnitzer, Michael Britzger, Oliver Burmeister, Karsten Danzmann, Ernst-Bernhard Kley, Andreas Tünnermann, and Roman Schnabel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 163903 (2010) - Published 21 April, 2010

Optical Detection of Tunneling Ionization

Aart J. Verhoef, Alexander V. Mitrofanov, Evgenii E. Serebryannikov, Daniil V. Kartashov, Aleksei M. Zheltikov, and Andrius Baltuška

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 163904 (2010) - Published 23 April, 2010

Observation of Periodic Orbits on Curved Two-Dimensional Geometries

M. Avlund, C. Ellegaard, M. Oxborrow, T. Guhr, and N. Søndergaard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 164101 (2010) - Published 20 April, 2010

One-Parameter Scaling Theory for Stationary States of Disordered Nonlinear Systems

Joshua D. Bodyfelt, Tsampikos Kottos, and Boris Shapiro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 164102 (2010) - Published 22 April, 2010

Acoustic Surface Evanescent Wave and its Dominant Contribution to Extraordinary Acoustic Transmission and Collimation of Sound

Yu Zhou, Ming-Hui Lu, Liang Feng, Xu Ni, Yan-Feng Chen, Yong-Yuan Zhu, Shi-Ning Zhu, and Nai-Ben Ming

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 164301 (2010) - Published 23 April, 2010

Plasma and Beam Physics

Demonstration of the Highest Deuterium-Tritium Areal Density Using Multiple-Picket Cryogenic Designs on OMEGA

V. N. Goncharov, T. C. Sangster, T. R. Boehly, S. X. Hu, I. V. Igumenshchev, F. J. Marshall, R. L. McCrory, D. D. Meyerhofer, P. B. Radha, W. Seka, S. Skupsky, C. Stoeckl, D. T Casey, J. A. Frenje, and R. D. Petrasso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 165001 (2010) - Published 20 April, 2010

Implosion Experiments using Glass Ablators for Direct-Drive Inertial Confinement Fusion

V. A. Smalyuk, R. Betti, J. A. Delettrez, V. Yu. Glebov, D. D. Meyerhofer, P. B. Radha, S. P. Regan, T. C. Sangster, J. Sanz, W. Seka, C. Stoeckl, B. Yaakobi, J. A. Frenje, C. K. Li, R. D. Petrasso, and F. H. Séguin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 165002 (2010) - Published 21 April, 2010

Evolution of Shear-Induced Melting in a Dusty Plasma

Yan Feng, J. Goree, and Bin Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 165003 (2010) - Published 22 April, 2010

Stimulated Brillouin Scatter in a Magnetized Ionospheric Plasma

P. A. Bernhardt, C. A. Selcher, R. H. Lehmberg, S. P. Rodriguez, J. F. Thomason, K. M. Groves, M. J. McCarrick, and G. J. Frazer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 165004 (2010) - Published 22 April, 2010

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observability of Quantum Criticality and a Continuous Supersolid in Atomic Gases

S. Diehl, M. Baranov, A. J. Daley, and P. Zoller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 165301 (2010) - Published 20 April, 2010

Detecting the Elusive Larkin-Ovchinnikov Modulated Superfluid Phases for Imbalanced Fermi Gases in Optical Lattices

Yen Lee Loh and Nandini Trivedi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 165302 (2010) - Published 22 April, 2010

Topological Phases of Dipolar Particles in Elongated Wannier Orbitals

Kai Sun, Erhai Zhao, and W. Vincent Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 165303 (2010) - Published 23 April, 2010

Three-Dimensional X-Ray Fourier Transform Holography: The Bragg Case

V. Chamard, J. Stangl, G. Carbone, A. Diaz, G. Chen, C. Alfonso, C. Mocuta, and T. H. Metzger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 165501 (2010) - Published 19 April, 2010

Surface Acoustic Bloch Oscillations, the Wannier-Stark Ladder, and Landau-Zener Tunneling in a Solid

M. M. de Lima, Jr., Yu. A. Kosevich, P. V. Santos, and A. Cantarero

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 165502 (2010) - Published 23 April, 2010

Jamming Transitions in Amorphous Packings of Frictionless Spheres Occur over a Continuous Range of Volume Fractions

Pinaki Chaudhuri, Ludovic Berthier, and Srikanth Sastry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 165701 (2010) - Published 21 April, 2010

Structural and Dynamical Features of Multiple Metastable Glassy States in a Colloidal System with Competing Interactions

Christian L. Klix, C. Patrick Royall, and Hajime Tanaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 165702 (2010) - Published 23 April, 2010

Evidence of Growing Spatial Correlations at the Glass Transition from Nonlinear Response Experiments

C. Crauste-Thibierge, C. Brun, F. Ladieu, D. L’Hôte, G. Biroli, and J-P. Bouchaud

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 165703 (2010) - Published 23 April, 2010

Identifying Multiple Configurations of Complex Molecules in Dynamical Processes: Time Resolved Tunneling Spectroscopy and Density Functional Theory Calculation

Q. Liu, Y. Y. Zhang, N. Jiang, H. G. Zhang, L. Gao, S. X. Du, and H.-J. Gao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 166101 (2010) - Published 22 April, 2010

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Quantum Hall Effect near the Charge Neutrality Point in a Two-Dimensional Electron-Hole System

G. M. Gusev, E. B. Olshanetsky, Z. D. Kvon, N. N. Mikhailov, S. A. Dvoretsky, and J. C. Portal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 166401 (2010) - Published 20 April, 2010

Pinning and Depinning of the Polarization of Exciton-Polariton Condensates at Room Temperature

J. Levrat, R. Butté, T. Christian, M. Glauser, E. Feltin, J.-F. Carlin, N. Grandjean, D. Read, A. V. Kavokin, and Y. G. Rubo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 166402 (2010) - Published 23 April, 2010

$ν = 5 / 2$ Fractional Quantum Hall Effect at 10 T: Implications for the Pfaffian State

Chi Zhang, T. Knuuttila, Yanhua Dai, R. R. Du, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 166801 (2010) - Published 21 April, 2010

Impurity-Induced Bound States and Proximity Effect in a Bilayer Exciton Condensate

Yonatan Dubi and Alexander V. Balatsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 166802 (2010) - Published 21 April, 2010

Ballistic Quantum Spin Hall State and Enhanced Edge Backscattering in Strong Magnetic Fields

G. Tkachov and E. M. Hankiewicz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 166803 (2010) - Published 22 April, 2010

Parallel Electron-Hole Bilayer Conductivity from Electronic Interface Reconstruction

R. Pentcheva, M. Huijben, K. Otte, W. E. Pickett, J. E. Kleibeuker, J. Huijben, H. Boschker, D. Kockmann, W. Siemons, G. Koster, H. J. W. Zandvliet, G. Rijnders, D. H. A. Blank, H. Hilgenkamp, and A. Brinkman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 166804 (2010) - Published 23 April, 2010

Free Folding of Suspended Graphene Sheets by Random Mechanical Stimulation

Jiong Zhang, Jianliang Xiao, Xianhong Meng, Carolyn Monroe, Yonggang Huang, and Jian-Min Zuo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 166805 (2010) - Published 23 April, 2010

Pure Mott Phases in Confined Ultracold Atomic Systems

V. G. Rousseau, G. G. Batrouni, D. E. Sheehy, J. Moreno, and M. Jarrell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 167201 (2010) - Published 19 April, 2010

Tuning the Ferromagnetic Coupling of Fe Nanodots on Cu(111) via Dimensionality Variation of the Mediating Electrons

Lifeng Yin, Di Xiao, Zheng Gai, Thomas Z. Ward, Noppi Widjaja, G. Malcolm Stocks, Zhao-hua Cheng, E. Ward Plummer, Zhenyu Zhang, and Jian Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 167202 (2010) - Published 20 April, 2010

Tailoring Magnetic Interlayer Coupling in ${La}_{0.7} {Sr}_{0.3} {MnO}_{3} / {SrRuO}_{3}$ Superlattices

M. Ziese, I. Vrejoiu, E. Pippel, P. Esquinazi, D. Hesse, C. Etz, J. Henk, A. Ernst, I. V. Maznichenko, W. Hergert, and I. Mertig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 167203 (2010) - Published 21 April, 2010

Valence-Band Structure of the Ferromagnetic Semiconductor GaMnAs Studied by Spin-Dependent Resonant Tunneling Spectroscopy

Shinobu Ohya, Iriya Muneta, Pham Nam Hai, and Masaaki Tanaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 167204 (2010) - Published 22 April, 2010

Magnetic Domain Wall Pumping by Spin Transfer Torque

C. T. Boone and I. N. Krivorotov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 167205 (2010) - Published 23 April, 2010

Fast Spin Rotations by Optically Controlled Geometric Phases in a Charge-Tunable InAs Quantum Dot

Erik D. Kim, Katherine Truex, Xiaodong Xu, Bo Sun, D. G. Steel, A. S. Bracker, D. Gammon, and L. J. Sham

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 167401 (2010) - Published 23 April, 2010

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Triple Cascade Behavior in Quasigeostrophic and Drift Turbulence and Generation of Zonal Jets [Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 118501 (2009)]

Sergey Nazarenko and Brenda Quinn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 169901 (2010) - Published 19 April, 2010

Erratum: Kondo Effect in Carbon Nanotube Quantum Dots with Spin-Orbit Coupling [Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 246805 (2008)]

Tie-Feng Fang, Wei Zuo, and Hong-Gang Luo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 169902 (2010) - Published 19 April, 2010

Erratum: X-Ray Absorption Spectra Reveal the Inapplicability of the Single-Band Hubbard Model to Overdoped Cuprate Superconductors [Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 087402 (2009)]

D. C. Peets, D. G. Hawthorn, K. M. Shen, Young-June Kim, D. S. Ellis, H. Zhang, Seiki Komiya, Yoichi Ando, G. A. Sawatzky, Ruixing Liang, D. A. Bonn, and W. N. Hardy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 169903 (2010) - Published 22 April, 2010

Erratum: Observation and Control of Transverse Energy-Transport Barrier due to the Formation of an Energetic-Electron Layer with Sheared $E \times B$ Flow [Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 055001 (2006)]

T. Cho et al. (GAMMA 10 Group)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 169904 (2010) - Published 22 April, 2010

Erratum: Distinguishing Elastic Shear Deformation from Friction on the Surfaces of Molecular Crystals [Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 086102 (2010)]

Vivek Kalihari, Greg Haugstad, and C. Daniel Frisbie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 169905 (2010) - Published 23 April, 2010

Volume 104, Issue 16

On the Cover

From the article:

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

LETTERS

General Physics: Statistical and Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information, etc.

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Elementary Particles and Fields

Nuclear Physics

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

COMMENTS

ERRATA